re: How much would you spend on a sick pet to diagnose an issue?

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How much would you spend on a sick pet to diagnose an issue?

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About $350.oo

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That's an expensive fork.

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Yeah.


And she only has about 20 human years of life left.

Don't know if it's been stated but $22 a month pet insurance would have covered everything.

I think on certain ones there's a year or two waiting period before a claim, but it's smartest to get it right when you get the dog. I've had a $6200 claim paid in full. I think there was a $100 deductible.

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I had a boxer, Ozzy, years ago that I assume got cancer. I had the vet remove the lump from his chest. They wanted to do a biopsy. I told them no. He lived to be 14 years old. That's well over the average life span.

That’s a family question and greatly depends on your income. I feel like I have to give a good answer because I have a fricking cat living wife, 2 daughters and about 6 beers deep.

I’ve spent about $2k per cat on a couple of 10+ year old cats she really loved. We had a kitten that was around 3 months, vet said they could try a chamber to save it’s like for $3k. I made the call to put it to sleep. We have two cats now they really love. Magic number is around $1k per cat I would say in an emergency.

But man you really have to make hard decisions especially when women are involved. They will mortgage the house and turn in the 401k over a fricking stray cat.

I had a three year old dog that had some wild, fricking neurological thing they never actually diagnosed. Let's just say my wife and I didn't max our Roth IRAs that year. I think the bill was high $7k.

As much as the misses wants. Otherwise you will never live it down.

I have a vet I trust implicitly if I didn't I would find another vet. I know she would tell me what she thought about the possible prognosis, seems difficult to be too specific if the diagnosis has not been made though. My vet knows our family well enough to know we aren't poor and she knows how much we care for our pets if she says we should roll I will roll. Sure I would think about $6500 but would spend it in a heartbeat for any of my dogs if the prognosis was decent.

My wife and I came to love a kitty cat who was a few weeks older than the day we met. Long story short, in 1998 or 1999 we decided for every year she lived, she earned another $100 in her "vet bank" that we'd spend on anything "major" that cropped up.

When we lost her in early-2017, she was 18.5 years old and had thus earned $1,800 to spend on her at the vet. That is not some "cumulative lifetime amount" but any new one-time payment.

In other words, if we'd brought her to the vet and they said the item was $1,700 to proceed, we'd have said yes, within reason (not prolonging suffering or anything). But if we had spent $400 on something for her the prior year, that doesn't mean we'd now only spend $1,400 on her.

Regardless, I still miss Toulouse. I wasn't a big cat fan before I met her. But she was quite a sweetie.

Now that it is 2019, if in the same situation, maybe we'd go with $125 or $150 per year "earned".